Mobile cancer screening service extended

A mobile breast-screening service will spend extra time in Warren, Nyngan and Cobar this year to encourage more women to get check-ups.

The Greater Western Area Health Service (GWAHS) wants to ensure all women aged over 40 are being properly checked for breast cancer.

Alison Coote from GWAHS says early detection of cancer increases survival rates by about 50 per cent.

"We know that if we get it early the survival's fantastic and we also know that if we don't get it early, so that the cancer's actually spread outside the breast tissue and has formed a cancer in another part of the body, then that five-year survival drops down to about 40 per cent," she said.

Ms Coote says it is vital women take advantage of the screening program.

"It's imperative that we keep screening women so that we can detect those cancers when they're earliest and the options are a lot better for women," she said.